Sewing-needle



A. VILLANI.

SEWING NEEDLI'L APPLICATION FILED OCT-7.1919- 1,345,422, v PatentedJu1y6,1920,

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Y ANGELO vILLANIY, or WILMINGTON, DELAWARE. i

SEWING-NEEDLE.

i g Specification of Letters Ilatent.v Patnted July, 1920. i

Application filed October 7, 1919. Serial No. 329,012. n l' To all whom t may concern.' Y

Be it known that I, AANGELO VILLANI, a citizen of the United States, and resident of lVilming-ton,l Delaware, have invented cer! tain new and useful Improvements in SewingNeedles, of which the following is a` specification. l l

My present invention relates to an improved hand device for overseaming, darning and analogous operations and aims to provide a simple, economical and efficient device which will greatly facilitate the work of the house-.wife and the invention includes the novel features of construction and arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described and defined by the appended claims.

LAn embodiment of my'invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which- Figure l is a side elevation of a device embodying my invention and Figs. 2 to 6 are detail views.

Referring byl reference characters to this drawing the numeral l designates the needle which may be of any suitable length and thickness and which is pointed in the usual manner to enable it to penetrate the material to be sewed.

One side of the needle at a suitable distance back from the point is provided with an elongated recess la in the center of'which is' pivoted a latch member 2 which is slightly longer than one half the length of the recess.

The forward end of the recess is shaped to form a hook, indicated at lb to catch the thread and draw it in loop form through the fabric as hereinafter more fully described, andiin one position the free end of the latch is designed to rest against the upper edge of the hooked portion 1b and in the other Y extreme position to rest against the shoulder l", in each position projecting slightly above the surface of the needle so as to be caught and swung by the fabricwhen the movement of the needle is reversed.

Associated with the needle is a combined handle and spool holder, the handle compris ing a frame member 3 of open loop form, to one arm 3a of which the rear end of the needle is rigidly secured. The other arm 3b which is substantially parallel tothe opposite side, is provided at its extremity with a boss 3c which engages an eye 4 of a spool holder supporting arm 4. f

The s ide of the frame opposite the arm 3*?` is provided with an aperture 3X^t`o receivev the end of the spool holder sleeve 5, said sleeve being closed at its outer end, and being provided at the opposite end with a flange 5fL designed to engage the spool end. The frame carries a disk 6 adapted to engage the opposite end of the spool whichis clamped between this disk and the flange '5a PATENT oFFlcle'..

with suflicient force to give the desired fric- Y tional resistance to the rotation. of the spool which is placed on the sleeve 5.

Within the sleeve 5 is placed aspring 7 which bears at `one end against the closed end of the sleeve andv at the opposite end against the end of the arm l. The spring, therefore, tends to force the vsleeve and flange 5il toward the disk 6, while to remove and replace the spool it is only necessary to press the flange 5a backward against the tension of the spring until the end of the sleeve is clear of the opening in theframc, when the arm l may be swung around on its pivot on boss 3 and the spool removed and replaced. Y

From the foregoing it is though the manner of using my device will be obvious, but it may be briefly stated as follows:

For overseaming, for example, the needle would be pushed through the juxtaposed edges of the fabric which would cause the free end of the latch to be engaged by the fabric and swung back against the shoulder 1, it being understood that the needle is pushed through the fabric until the latter has passed the end of the latch in its backward position.

' VThe thread 8 is then drawn from the spool 9 and laid in the hook l" of the needle which is then drawn through the fabric to form a loop.

The needle is then again inserted through the fabric at a suitable distance from the Vprevious point of penetration, the latch again swinging backwardly, and the thread is again `laid in the hook which is again` Y withdrawn and so an ad z'am'tum.

2. In combination, a needle, a handle therefor having two substantially parallel side members, an arm pivotally connected to one of said members, a tubular spool holder removably carried Vby said arm and having a Vspool engaging flange, the other handle member having a part to be `engaged by said spool holder, and a spring acting on said 'spool holder;

3.1m oomblnation, a needle, a handle therefor having two Vsubstantially -parallel 410V sidemembers, an arm pivotally connected to a spring Within said spool holder between 15 said Closed end and the end of the arm, the other handle member having a recess to re eeive the end of said spoolholder- In testimony whereof I aflix mv signature A, 

